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VANCOUVER - Ali Saadatmandi and Ali Tayyebi were each charged with sexual assault - and Saadatmandi was charged with administering a stupefying drug - after the June 2005 incident involving the 18-year-old girl. (Vancouver Province)
YSTAD - Opera star Tito Ernesto Beltran has been sentenced to two years in jail by Ystad District Court for the rape of an 18-year-old nanny in 1999. (The Local)
Teen makes surprise guilty plea MONTREAL - A serial rapist apologized in Youth Court yesterday to the women he sexually assaulted and their families, saying he was sorry for the hurt he had caused. In all, the 18-year-old man was accused of sexually assaulting 11 women. His name cannot be published because he was a minor when he committed the crimes. (Montreal Gazette)
ST. JOHN’S - A man who was to stand trial Tuesday in St. John's on kidnapping and sexual assault charges has killed himself. Darren Joseph Fagan, 37, was found dead at Her Majesty's Penitentiary, in the east end of St. John's. (CBC)
We've lost track of sex offenders VANCOUVER - The case of Steven James Petiquan illustrates just a few of the reasons why Canada's sex offender registry has been called everything from "useless" to "a sham." Last summer, the convicted sex offender from Abbotsford decided to take a trip to Calgary. Petiquan, 31, didn't tell authorities about it. The law says he doesn't have to for trips of less than two weeks. (Vancouver Province)
CALGARY - A man who was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman at a tanning salon in 2002 has been charged with an eerily similar crime. Marcel Joseph Parent, 30, has been charged with possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, sexual assault with a weapon, robbery and unlawful confinement after a woman was attacked at knifepoint at a northwest Calgary tanning salon. (Calgary Herald)
C.W. Jeffreys officials face charges TORONTO - Police have charged the former principal and two vice-principals at C.W. Jeffreys Collegiate with failing to report an alleged sexual assault on a female student. (CBC) PREVIOUS: CW Jefferys officials face child act charges 4 charged in Jefferys sex case: 4 charged in CW Jefferys sex assault
Man serving time for gang rape is set free early MONTREAL - A man sentenced to four years and two months in prison after the 2005 gang rape of a 14-year-old girl in a St. Michel park is free to walk this city's streets this morning. Guards ushered Andy Virgile, 21, out of the Montreal Detention Centre late Thursday, after the Quebec Court of Appeal ordered his immediate release. (Montreal Gazette)
Leone is 'inherently dangerous' WINDSOR - Convicted sex offender Carl Leone represents a "real and present danger" and should be incarcerated indefinitely, assistant Crown attorney Tim Kavanagh told Windsor Superior Court Justice Joseph Quinn. (Windsor Star)
MONTREAL - A woman who was sexually abused for years by her mother's boyfriend is suing the man for $600,000 in damages after the criminal courts handed him a conditional sentence. (Montreal Gazette) |
Serial rapist released without rehab CALGARY - Keegan Troy Spearchief, 22, was released from jail after serving four years for multiple violent sexual assaults and break and enter, prompting police to issue a warning to women. (Calgary Herald)
Police have charged the president of the self-governed Inuit region of Nunatsiavut in Labrador with sexual assault. William Andersen III took a paid leave of absence in November from his role as president of the Nunatsiavut Assembly. At the time, he cited personal reasons for the leave. Andersen faces a charge of sexually assaulting a 25-year-old woman. (CBC) MORE: RCMP lay sex charge against Inuit leader
LONDON - The true extent of so-called "honour" crime is being underestimated by the government, the Centre for Social Cohesion think-tank claims. Based on some 80 interviews, its report says forced marriage, imprisonment and "honour" killings are not restricted to first generation immigrant families. (BBC) PREVIOUS: Crimes of the Community 'Honour' crimes bring nothing but shame
CALGARY - An arbitration panel has ruled a Lethbridge College professor dismissed for having sex with his students should be reinstated, but the college doesn't want him back. (Calgary Herald)
Vicious rape like slasher 'movie' EDMONTON - There was a moment during the two-hour rape when Ryan Huppie's victim believed she was about to die. He was enraged that she had tried to call 911 and he leapt at her with a knife. She held her hands up to protect herself and he severed two of her fingers, slashed her face and cut her throat. (Edmonton Journal)
Deportation may not stop offender VANCOUVER - A wanted US sex offender with a 30-year history of violent and sexual crimes is facing deportation this week -- his fourth order in five years. But British Columbians who have followed the case for years fear Denver Todd Carnes could end up in Canada again. (Vancouver Province) MORE: Carnes' rap sheet and timeline
OTTAWA - This fall, a Carleton University graduate student needed to clear the record. Widely published reports had described how a man entered the science lab where she was working late one night, snapped her jaw, removed her clothes and sexually assaulted her. Several stories incorrectly claimed she was raped. Concerned that the word might stigmatize her and hinder her chances of marriage, the 23-year-old Muslim let it be known that there was no penetration during this brutal incident. But if it was not rape, what was it? (National Post)
VANCOUVER - Robert Gordon Bodkin, a former Mountie, Vancouver police officer and longtime Coast Mountain Bus transit supervisor is facing sex-crime charges dating back to the 1970s. (Vancouver Province)
TORONTO - Police have charged eight boys with the alleged sexual assault of four 13-year-old girls at a Rexdale school, dispute allegations from the parents of the accused that the children were just playing around. (National Post) MORE: 8 boys charged with sex assault |
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Dance teacher guilty of sex charges VANCOUVER - A BC judge shredded the testimony of tap-dance teacher Van "The Man" Porter, finding he lied on the stand and lacked any credibility as a witness before finding him guilty yesterday of six counts of sexual misconduct against three former teenage students. (Vancouver Province) |
'Marpole Rapist' released despite indefinite sentence VANCOUVER - A man deemed a dangerous sexual offender and sentenced to an indefinite jail term 13 years ago is out on parole and living in Vancouver. Gary Jagur Singh, the Marpole Rapist, was arrested in 1991 after a three-year string of sex assaults. (Vancouver Province) |
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For many of the 3.3 billion female occupants of our planet, the perks of the cyber age never arrived. As International Women's Day is celebrated they continue to feel the age-old lash of violence, repression, isolation, enforced ignorance and discrimination. (Toronto Star) |
Afghan women call for peace, equality Licence to lie for Italian women |
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VANCOUVER - The women who were drugged were at a Beta Theta Pi Fraternity party on Sept. 21. Stephanie Ataliotis said the men in the fraternity, for University of BC students, have been supportive in trying to find out who's behind the drugging. (Vancouver Province) |
VANCOUVER - Plans are afoot to open Canada's first co-operative brothel in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. "Vancouver is a testing ground for these sorts of things," said Susan Davis, spokeswoman for Prostitution Alternatives Counselling and Education. (Province) |
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Conditions imposed on sex offender VANCOUVER - A provincial court judge in Abbotsford has imposed strict conditions on a high-risk sex offender just released from prison. (Vancouver Province) PREVIOUS: Watchful eye PEI rapist arrested at Vancouver airport |
Serial rapist may be active in BC KELOWNA - Police in Kelowna, BC believe a serial rapist may be active in the area, after several women were sexually assaulted -- the latest victim a 15-year-old girl. (CTV) MORE: New warning from RCMP after sex attack |
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Madam says Senator used her brothel NEW ORLEANS - New allegations tie Senator David Vitter to a high-priced brothel in his hometown, one day after he publicly apologized for his connection to an alleged prostitution ring in Washington, DC. (AP) PREVIOUS: Deborah Jeane Palfrey Deborah Jeane Palfrey's website Senator apologizes DC madam can peddle 'call' list |
Offender off national registry NANAIMO - A former Vancouver Island doctor who served a four-year jail term for sexually assaulting patients has had his name removed from the national sex offender registry. The 63-year-old man, identified only as "S", successfully argued in BC Supreme Court that keeping his name on the registry for the minimum 20-year period is a significant violation of his privacy. (CP) JUDGMENT: R. v. S. (M.W.) 2007 BCSC 1188 |
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VANCOUVER - Vancouver police issued a public appeal Wednesday for more information about a man accused of sexually assaulting four women after allegedly slipping a date-rape drug in their drinks. .(Vancouver Sun) |
Early deviant behaviours linked to sex abuse: study VANCOUVER - A study of more than 500 repeat sex offenders in BC has discovered two types of early-life behaviour that leads to repeat sexual abuse. (CanWest) |
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2nd York rape suspect in court TORONTO - A second man charged in the sexual assaults on two women at York University has been remanded in custody until tomorrow. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS: Suspect arrested in York U sex assaults Sex assaults in dormitory rattle York University |
LANGLEY - A woman working alone at a Langley gas station in the middle of the night was sexually assaulted after letting a young man in to use the washroom. The woman, in her late 40s, was working in a locked Husky station at 200th Street and Willowbrook Drive. (Province) |
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MONTREAL - Benoit Guay led two very different lives. In the one everyone close to him knew about, he was a 13-year veteran of the Montreal police, working undercover for a surveillance unit and married to a fellow officer. In the other, which he kept secret, he drove around the streets of Laval and St. Jerome late at night, looking for young women and girls he would sexually assault. (Montreal Gazette) |
Lawyer charged with sex crimes HAMILTON - A Hamilton lawyer who specializes in defending youths has been charged with sex crimes against two of his teenage male clients. A strained-looking Tom Martin, 43, was led into a bail court prisoner's dock charged with one count of sexual assault and two counts of sexual exploitation. (Hamilton Spectator) RELATED: Rabbi, synagogue sued over seduction scandal Coach pleads not guilty to sexually exploiting |
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Rape trial gets national attention OMAHA, Neb. - A Lincoln woman plans to testify this week as the victim of an alleged sexual assault. But the judge has banned her from using the words "rape" and "sexual assault." (KETV) |
Rape victim recalls horror in court MELFORT - The alleged victim in a sexual assault trial wailed loudly and covered her face when the Crown prosecutor on Tuesday presented her clothes from the night three men allegedly attacked her. (Star Phoenix) |
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Sex offenders younger, more violent, study says STOCKTON, Calif. - Courts have seen the number of sex offense cases involving juvenile offenders rise dramatically in recent years, an Associated Press review of national statistics found, and treatment professionals say the offenders are getting younger and the crimes more violent. (AP) |
Women patients wait for answers EDMONTON - Jenny had never met a doctor as caring and attentive as Edmonton whiplash specialist Robert Ferrari. During his first assessment, he commented on her extraordinary level of fitness and suggested they get together to pursue their mutual interest in running. (Edmonton Journal) RELATED: Righting a 'nightmare' system |
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Outrage grows over Katsav deal JERUSALEM - In what was a palpable atmosphere of outrage and combative determination, some 20,000 people piled into Kikar Rabin on Saturday night to protest the plea bargain reached Thursday between the state and President Moshe Katsav. (Jerusalem Post) PREVIOUS: Plead deal for Israeli president challenged Guilty plea keeps Israeli president out of jail Katsav hands in resignation after accepting plea bargain |
They call it femicide. "It's the fashion here to murder women," says a man in Killer's Paradise. More than 600 Guatemalan women a year are murdered. The figures have quadrupled in the last five years, while the murder rate among men has remained constant. Since January, 102 women and girls have been killed, among them a 7-year-old who was raped and beheaded. (Toronto Star) RELATED: Rape for Darfur women Test snares rapists without sperm |
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VICTORIA - Four sex charges against a lawyer, once employed as a Crown prosecutor, have been stayed because of court delays. (Victoria Times Colonist) |
EDMONTON - The Crown has won its bid to have Eugene Francis declared a dangerous offender for a series of increasingly brutal attacks on women. (Edmonton Journal) |
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VANCOUVER - Port Coquitlam Mayor Scott Young says he is taking sick leave for alcoholism treatment, meaning he will continue earning income while he's investigated for an alleged assault at an ex-girlfriend's home. (CTV) |
CALGARY - Two corrections officers from the Calgary Remand Centre have been fired and are facing criminal charges after a reported sexual assault against a fellow guard last month. (Calgary Herald) |
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VICTORIA - Zoe Read died at Royal Jubilee Hospital on March 13 after accidentally overdosing on gamma hydroxybutyrate, commonly known as GHB, at a party three days earlier. (CanWest) |
Former CFL player convicted of sexual assault Former BC Lions linebacker Keith Franklin has been convicted of sexually assaulting a woman at knifepoint in her Vancouver high-rise. (Province) Franklin jailed again |
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VANCOUVER - A serial rapist on parole who attacked five Lower Mainland women during a nine-day crime binge was never tested for drugs by his parole officer -- despite the fact drug and alcohol use was a key factor in most of his past crimes. (Vancouver Sun) |
66 sex criminals let loose in BC VANCOUVER - A total of 66 sex offenders considered too dangerous to be paroled have been released from B.C. prisons over the past five years -- a rate of more than one a month, according to statistics provided by the Correctional Service of Canada. (Vancouver Sun) |
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - William Beebe had been haunted by that night for years. He'd tried to send the letter before - and failed. Just like he'd failed to stick with Alcoholics Anonymous. Just like he'd failed at so much in life. (Fox) |
LUCKNOW, India - A man in northern India will be publicly slapped 51 times as punishment after village elders found him guilty of raping a neighbor who is deaf and mute, a village chief said Friday. (AP) |
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VANCOUVER - Two more victims of a serial groper who is preying on women in Vancouver, Burnaby and Coquitlam have come forward. That makes 27 women attacked since January last year. (Province) PREVIOUS: Serial groper eludes police |
JERUSALEM - Former Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon was convicted Wednesday of kissing a young female soldier against her will — a case that riveted the country's attention and added another layer of scandal to Israel's beleaguered leadership. (CBS/AP) |
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Charges dropped against victim The case of an Iranian girl sentenced to death for killing a man who attempted to rape her has had a happy ending: the charges have been dropped. (CTV) |
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Crowbars and knives are some of the weapons used against sex workers in rural and small-town BC, according to a report that calls for more social services to protect prostitutes from increasingly violent attacks by pimps and customers. (Vancouver Sun) MORE: Girls lured to sex parties in West Shore |
Private dicks paid to have sex SYDNEY - Private detectives in Sydney have been paid to have sex with prostitutes by city officials. The men were paid through official channels to do the deed so as to give evidence in court cases aimed at closing down brothels. (WGHP) PREVIOUS: Councils pay for brothel sex |
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Dethroned beauty hangs her head MIAMI - Katie Rees the former Miss Nevada USA, dethroned over raunchy photos posted online, apologized yesterday as her lawyer pleaded for the pageant queen to be given a second chance. (AP) MORE: Photos that stripped Miss Nevada of her title |
Rapist faces new charge after controversial parole VANCOUVER - A convicted rapist accused of sexually assaulting an 89-year-old Nanaimo woman while on parole was released from jail by a BC parole board that was not fully informed of his violent sexual past. (Vancouver Sun) |
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VANCOUVER - Nearly 24 years after he was deemed a dangerous offender and sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars, new evidence has surfaced that could overturn the serial-rape conviction of Ivan Henry. (Vancouver Province) |
Sikh priests face sex charges: temple in uproar WINNIPEG - Members of a small Sikh temple are dismayed after charges of sexual misconduct were laid by police against three of its priests. (Winnipeg Free Press) PREVIOUS: Sikh Priests arrested |
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REGINA - The 59-year-old served three years in prison for charges arising out of his lengthy fixation with Cathy Kaip, a Regina woman he stalked for more than 30 years. (Leader-Post) |
TO police seek victims of HIV positive man TORONTO - Investigators believe Vincent Walkem, 28, deliberately hid or lied about his condition to other women. (CTV) |
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WASHINGTON - They were accused of a brutal sex crime that reopened centuries- old racial divisions in the American South -- a group of privileged white college boys who allegedly gang-raped a black stripper at a late-night frat house party. (CanWest) |
Expert admits "Big Error" in Duke case Midnight blogger exposes a scandal Duke players get their reputation back Stripper lied. . .white boys fried
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